Posted on 05/02/2017 8:33:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Trump is ready to give up on Congress — or maybe he already has. And we can totally see why he wants to just shut it down and start all over again. Democrats are united against him, Republicans seem hopelessly divided, and Trump's top priorities are no closer to being law than when he was running for president.
To wit: There's no question Democrats won this week's budget showdown, and it was mostly Trump's priorities that got left on the cutting floor when congressional leaders were making a deal.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said he shared President Trump’s “frustration,” with the compromises in the spending deal, but that there are “still a lot of conservative wins” in the bill during a news conference on May 2.
Republicans were too divided to provide enough votes for a strictly conservative budget, so the president had a choice: Push for a political reality that doesn't exist to try to make good on his campaign promises, or back off what he wants and help his divided party in Congress avoid a shutdown.
“What is Trump getting out of cooperation with the Republican Congress?” said Steve Bell, a former GOP Senate budget aide now with the Bipartisan Policy institute. “He's got to be asking himself in private — I don't know if he is. But goodness, I would be.”
In the meantime, a unified Democratic Party is getting much of what it wanted: Funding for Planned Parenthood; more money, not less, for domestic programs; and not a dime spent on building Trump's wall. Oh, and Obamacare remains in place, and Trump will have to agree to pay subsidies to keep it alive.
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Trump doesn't have to agree with anything; he can veto the spending measure and let the government "shut down," saying that the bill wasn't what he was elected to be complicit in. Go directly to the American people; his base will rise up in righteous indignation and take it to the Congress.
PRIMARY The guys that won’t fund the border Wall!!!
Many of them are in competitive districts and a strict conservative may easily be defeated by a moderate dem.
It also continues to pay for the importation of islamic immigrants.
This is working IMO. Let them go on with their disinformation campaign. They are just poking the bear.
I was just reading ivankas West Wing ideology.. seems more leftist than Hillary. So maybe it’s a good thing Congress is wondering what the heck, especially Constitutionalists and libertarians.
Sure. Ryno is still frustrated that Trump won.
If they’re acting like Democrats, mine as well just have the Democrat
Who influences Ryan and McConnell?
Surely not their constituents!
But I bet their lobbyist buddies and big money donors are drinking champagne.
It’s time for that to stop. Time for the politicos to stick more to their knitting. WE chose them, not their big time friends. And we can choose to not choose them.
They are FAKE Republicans.
Unbelievable. No funding for the wall, funding for PP. The rats may as well have Congress and the WH.
Yep, Democrats in R jerseys voting to advance the Democrat agenda differ only in their apparel.
WE chose them, not their big time friends. And we can choose to not choose them.
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Because we chose to re-elect weasels, they believe they can act like weasels.
Rubio, McCain, Hoeven and Murkowsky were all re-elected after betraying the citizens and the rule of law with their vote for Rubio’s Gang of Amnesty bill.
Why should they worry about complaints from people who voted for them after that betrayal?
We have to stop voting for people just because they wear an R jersey and start Cantorizing the weasels, RIGHT NOW!
Pres. Trump is apparently relying
on his RINO daughter’s lawyer, Gorelick.
Not very smart, Pres. Trump.
yeah? Well so didn’t reagan- goes with the job- republicans do NOT know how to win- Deal with it- it’s part of the job description
Ryan NEVER liked Trump and this “budget” is a gut punch from the RHINO Beltway Swampers!
I predict President Trump will face down these wascally weasels at a time and place, and in a manner of his own choosing. He has tweeted in the past 24 hours that a good shutdown is what this country needs.
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